Project Management Maturity Models: An Overview of the Common Models and a Proposed Uniform Model

In today's highly dynamic and rapidly changing business landscape, project constraints are continuously increasing regarding cost, time, level of customer satisfaction, and return on investment. Project-related issues are also increasing due to increased complexity, increased number of stakeholders, and extensive parameters. Recently, the project management community has shown interest in developing methodologies for project management to increase success in business organizations. Several project management models are introduced. In this article, different project management maturity models are analyzed and compared to determine any overlap or discrepancies between them. Moreover, the article aims to reveal the needs for the project to start, and the needs to evolve. The design of new maturity models on both team and organizational levels are used as a roadmap to pursue an organizational project. Finally, this article presents and outlines a uniform maturity model that unifies the best elements of all of the common singular maturity models.